Organ trafficking, fake ambulances, and L.A. sleaze—welcome to the black market nightmare of B.O.R.N.
B.O.R.N.
Your Kidney or Your Life!
A speeding ambulance abducts three beautiful young women to a sinister medical center where someone is making a killing selling healthy human organs on the black market.
Quick Answer
B.O.R.N. is a 1988 American horror-thriller film directed by Ross Hagen about a group of criminals who abduct young women in Los Angeles to harvest and sell their organs on the black market.
Programmer's Pick
If you thought hospitals were safe, B.O.R.N. is here to remind you that sometimes the ambulance ride is just the start of your problems. Between the phony paramedics and a price tag on every organ, this is pure 1980s exploitation—Troma style, with extra blood and guts.
— SassyFlix Programmer
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Why Cult
The film dives deep into the grim world of illegal organ trafficking, making for a uniquely disturbing premise.
Criminals masquerading as paramedics in a fake ambulance set the stage for tense and bizarre abductions.
With its Troma pedigree, expect gratuitous blood, guts, and a healthy dose of offbeat, sleazy 1980s horror flavor.
The sinister medical center setting heightens the film’s claustrophobic and unsettling atmosphere.
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Threat File
Need for a heart transplant
Organ-harvesting criminal ring
Abduction and murder of young women for their organs
Los Angeles, fake ambulance, sinister medical center
Questions from the Vault
When was B.O.R.N. released? +
B.O.R.N. was released in 1988.
Who directed B.O.R.N.? +
B.O.R.N. was directed by Ross Hagen.
How long is B.O.R.N.? +
B.O.R.N. has a runtime of 92 minutes.
What genre is B.O.R.N.? +
B.O.R.N. is a horror-thriller film.
